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Form Controls Support Vertical Writing Mode Direction Support

Category
DOM
Type
Chromium catches up
Status
In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 124)
Intent stage
None

Summary

CSS property writing-mode allow elements to go vertical, but users cannot set the direction in which value changes. With this feature, we are allowing the form control elements meter, progress and range input type to have vertical writing mode and choose the form control's value direction. If direction is rtl, the value is rendered from bottom to top. If direction is ltr, the value is rendered from top to bottom. For Web compatibility, we plan to slowly rollout the change in 123 and enable in stable in 124.

Motivation

While surveying developers, there are strong interests to be able to control the direction from which slider elements (such as range, meter and progress) update values. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4177 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8413

Standards & signals

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